Masserati destruction, a deflated duck, Canada’s YouTube astronaut returns to Earth, monks in training and more in today’s daily brief.

A deflated Rubber Duck by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman floats on Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour, with the island skyline looming at the background. The 16.5-meter-high inflatable sculpture, which made its first public appearance in the territory on May 2, will be shown at the Ocean Terminal for a month. The Rubber Duck was deflated after some of its parts broke. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters)

A swan swims on a pond at the Palace park in Moers, western Germany. (Roland Weihrauch/ Getty Images)

A Bangladeshi family member (C) weeps as she offers prayers with others in front of the rubble of a nine-story building collapse in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka. Bangladesh’s army wrapped up its search May 14, 2013 for bodies in a collapsed nine-storey building outside the capital as dozens of people were still massed at the site for news of their missing relatives. (Munir uz Zaman/Getty Images)

Bangladesh army personnel offer prayer in front of the rubble of a nine-story building collapse in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka. Bangladesh’s army wrapped up its search May 14, 2013 for bodies in a collapsed nine-storey building outside the capital as dozens of people were still massed at the site for news of their missing relatives. (Munir uz Zaman/Getty Images)

Men smash a Maserati with hammers outside the Qingdao International Automobile Exhibition in Qingdao, Shandong province. One of the men smashing the Maserati said the car owner had asked them to destroy the car, which costs around 2,600,000 yuan ($423,280), in protest against bad after sales service provided by a dealership store. The store had charged the owner the price of a new part despite repairing the Maserati with an old part, according to Xinhua News Agency. (Reuters)

Riot police stand by the gates of parliament during a demonstration against members of parliament who have demanded higher wages in Nairobi. Kenyan demonstrators released two dozen piglets at the gates of parliament and poured blood on the pavement today to protest demands by newly elected lawmakers for a wage hike. (Carl De Souza/Getty Images)

A protestor wearing a mask with the colors of the Kenyan flag participates in a demonstration against lawmakers’ salary demands outside the parliament buildings in the capital Nairobi. Kenyan police in riot gear fired teargas and water cannons on Tuesday to disperse about 200 protesters gathered outside parliament to demonstrate against lawmakers’ salary demands.(Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)

A man named as Ryan Fogle by the Russian Federal Security Service, lies on the ground during his detention in this undated handout photograph released by the Press service of Russian Federal Security Service. Russia said on Tuesday it had caught an American red-handed as he tried to recruit a Russian intelligence officer to work for the CIA, a throwback to the Cold War era that risks upsetting efforts to improve relations. The Federal Security Service said Fogle, a third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, had been detained overnight carrying “special technical equipment”, a disguise, a large sum of money and instructions for recruiting his target. The U.S. Embassy declined comment. (Russian Federal Security Service/Handout via Reuters)

A U.S. Navy diver cuts himself free after getting entangled with his safety device as he jumps from a USS Navy helicopter to perform a mine-sweeping exercise during the International Mine Countermeasures Exercise (IMCMEX) in the Middle East Gulf . Forty-one nations are taking part in the mine-sweeping exercise that ends on May 30. (Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters)

A US navy personnel mans a heavy machine gun as he watches a Riverine Command Boat (C) cruising past the USS Ponci somewhere in the Arabian Sea, on the first day of the the biggest mine countermeasures exercise in the Arabian Gulf. The US Navy along with other 40 nations are conducting the games. (Marwan Naaman/Getty Images)

Backdropped by Popocatepetl Volcano, Mexico’s second highest peak just 55 km southeast of Mexico City, a farmer plows the land in San Nicolas de los Ranchos, in the state of Puebla. The National Disaster Prevention Centre (CENAPRED) raised the alert level on Sunday to “yellow phase three” as the Popocatepetl continues to spew ash and smoke. (Ronaldo Schemidt/Getty Images)

Boys, who are experiencing the lives of Buddhist priests by staying in a temple for two weeks as novice monks, compete with each other for the ball during a friendly soccer match to celebrate the upcoming birthday of Buddha at Jogye temple in Seoul. Buddha’s birthday falls on May 17 in South Korea. (Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)

People stand in a damaged building at Reyhanli in Hatay, just a few kilometres from the main border crossing into Syria. The death toll in twin car bombings in a Turkish town near the Syrian border has increased to 50 after another body was recovered and a victim died in hospital, the health minister was quoted as saying on May 14. The attacks also provoked a backlash against Syrian refugees in Turkey, whose number is around 400,000 but government officials have repeatedly warned against provocations and said Turkey will maintain its open-door policy for Syrians fleeing the regime’s crackdown. (Bulent Kilic/Getty Images)

Relatives cover the body of 22-year-old Ayten Calim with a Muslim prayer rug and her wedding dress as they lower her into a grave in the town of Reyhanli in Hatay province near the Turkish-Syrian border. Calim was one of around 50 people to have been killed by two bomb attacks in Reyhanli over the weekend. (Umit Bektas/Reuters)

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters stand at formation in northern Iraq. The first group of Kurdish militants to withdraw from Turkey under a peace process entered northern Iraq on Tuesday, and were greeted by comrades from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), in a symbolic step towards ending a three-decades-old insurgency. The 13 men and women, carrying guns and with rucksacks on their backs, arrived in the area of Heror, near Metina mountain on the Turkish-Iraqi border, a Reuters witness said. (Azad Lashkari/Reuters)

Paris Saint-Germain’s players celebrate with their trophy as they parade on a double decker in Paris, one day after Paris secured French L1 football championship title. (Thomas Samson/Getty Images)

Paris Saint-Germain’s players celebrate with supporters as they parade on a double decker bus on May 13, 2013 in Paris, one day after Paris secured French L1 football championship title. (Kenzo Tribouillard/Getty Images)

The Russian Soyuz space capsule with US astronaut Tom Marshburn, Canadian spaceman Chris Hadfield and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko aboard lands some 150 km (90 miles) southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan. Marshburn, Hadfield and Romanenko returned today to Earth aboard a Russian Soyuz-TMA capsule after a half-year mission to the International Space Station, Moscow mission control said. (Sergei Remezov/Getty Images)

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield gestures after the Russian Soyuz space capsule landed some 150 km (90 miles) southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan. Hadfield, the first Canadian astronaut to command the International Space Station (ISS) landed safely in Kazakhstan with two crewmates on Tuesday, wrapping up a five-month mission aboard the ISS. (Sergei Remezov/Reuters)

A Free Syrian Army fighter sits on a sofa inside a house in Deir al-Zor . (Khalil Ashawi/Reuters)

Free Syrian Army fighters lay cover fire after what they say was during clashes with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in Deir al-Zor.(Khalil Ashawi/Reuters)

Pilgrims from the Fuengirola fellowship are seen in a bar as they make their way to the shrine of El Rocio in Coria del Rio, near Seville. Every spring hundreds of thousands of devotees converge at a shrine to pay homage to the Virgin del Rocio during an annual pilgrimage which combines religious fervor and festive color. (Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters)

Pilgrims from the Fuengirola fellowship push a cart, bearing a pennant of a virgin of El Rocio, as they make their way to the shrine of El Rocio in Coria del Rio, near Seville. Every spring hundreds of thousands of devotees converge at a shrine to pay homage to the Virgin del Rocio during an annual pilgrimage which combines religious fervor and festive color. (Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters)

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